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The stare from across a desk was enough for me to question whether my first and only interview with Lou Reed had been a good idea.

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DAVID BAUDER
Posted Oct. 28, 2013 @ 5:02 am

NEW YORK — The stare from across a desk was enough for me to question whether my first and only interview with Lou Reed had been a good idea.

He'd already curtly dismissed a publicist who had dreamed for years of meeting his musical hero. Now Reed seemed to be debating whether my admitted sin — I wasn't a native New Yorker — was worth overlooking to get some business done.

Yes, Reed,

who died Sunday at age 71 of liver disease related to a recent

transplant, wasn't an easy man. New York isn't an easy town. Few artists

reflected a city better than he did, and he found it an endless source

of inspiration. The 2003 retrospective package we talked about claimed